Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get a full interview with Florida Hospital Medical Group’s administrator in the paper because of space and size constraints. But here on the wild wild web, we have the room and the wherewithal.

Mark Martin, the chief operating officer with FHMG, said they may consider using more regional administrative offices to house the support staff that comes with the growth in doctors.

“Space is a good problem to have, but space is always at a premium,” Martin said. FHMG currently has about 25,000 square feet of space in the 122,000 square-foot regional center in Maitland, but expanding within the building would mean pushing others out.

FHMG today has 1,533 employees as part of the medical group, with about 20 percent being doctors and mid-level providers, such as nurse practitioner and physician assistants. About 10 to 12 percent of employees are back-office administrative support positions, and the remaining 900 to 968 jobs are in the clinical operations at the office locations: front desk, technologists, registered and licensed practical nurses, etc.

“For every two providers its roughly one administrative support person,” Martin said.

Check the website Monday for a discussion on why Florida Hospital Medical Group believes the expansion isn’t a repeat of hospitals buying physician practices in the 1990s.